The tournament flight is half-way through level 4 and the players will be taking their second break in about 20 minutes. The eyes that aren’t glued to the poker table are wandering almost exclusively to the Champions League Final that is being played in Lisbon today!

Registration is up to 271 with two more levels (plus the dinner break) left to late register, and the numbers today, while solid, will likely not quite make it up to the level required to hit the guarantee… which means added value for everyone in the field!

Registration keeps climbing in Day 1c of the Pokerstars Canada Cup, with the total of the day up to 262 for now. This still falls short of the guarantee, meaning there is still an overlay. Players have over 4 hours to come and register, so be sure not to miss this opportunity!

A few recent Tweets:

Had to skip the Spartan race to play the 3.3k in Montreal. Hope it will be worth it, owe my friends big time.

— Jonathan Driscoll (@JDogDriscoll) May 24, 2014

Playing CanadaCup @PlaygroundPoker in Montreal #1bullet Lets get it

— Victor Ramdin (@victorramdin) May 24, 2014

Playing the PokerStars Canada Cup at @PlaygroundPoker today!! Should be a fun!! Gl to everyone!!

— Jonathan Roy (@jonathanroy70) May 24, 2014

Decided to play @PokerStars cup despite having a recent nose surgery. If I'm bleeding during a hand it doesn't mean that I'm strong…

— Marc.E McLaughlin (@Go_Irish_Go) May 24, 2014

Bagged 222k on day 1b of Canada cup at playground good for the chip lead, day 2 on sunday #onemoretime #canadacup #pokerstars #playground

— Charles-A. Sylvestre (@chilaxchuck) May 24, 2014

It’s still very very early in today’s flight, but there are a few players who have already managed to at least double their starting stack.

1. Marc-André Roy – 73K
2. Justin Miller – 67K
3. Jason Mann – 64K
4. Jiachen Gong – 61K

Here are a few photos from today’s Day 1c of the PokerStars Canada Cup Main Event:

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One of the greatest things about this event so far are the sheer number of fantastic poker players who have come out to compete for a share of the prize pool. Earlier we have seen Antonio Esfandiari, Jeff Gross, Marc-André Ladouceur, and Jonathan Duhamel, among others.

Today there are some more top names in poker who have jumped in the event. Victor Ramdin is here, as is November Niner Marc-Etienne McLaughlin and his partner Laurence Grondin, Canadian tournament superstars Mike Watson and Mike Leah, and many more.

Registration today is up to 231 players and late registration is still open for 5.5 hours, so there’s lots of time to come out to Playground and play with your heroes!

We have had our first elimination of the day and it went down in truly horrific (for the losing player) fashion… Mario Lim, who final tabled the WPT Canadian Spring Championship, was holding pocket 6s, flopped a set and the turn K gave him his boat… only to show down (with all of the chips in the middle) and find out his opponent – Vancouver lawyer Jason Mann – had turned quad Kings.

Today is the last of three flights of the PokerStars Canada Cup Main Event, and it is looking to be a packed house! With still another 10 minutes to go before the traditional ‘Shuffle up and deal’ that launches the tournament, the current attendance for this Day 1c has already surpassed yesterday’s 161 entries by quite a bit! And with late registration still open for another 7 hours, we can expect that number to steadily grow throughout the day.

So far, this Main Event has seen 290 players register in the first two flights, and 109 of these have survived onto Day 2. That number covers less than half of the $2 million guarantee, which means that, depending on today’s outcome, the players might enjoy an overlay! So far, 190 players have registered for this final flight, and any number of entries below 377 today will be added to the prize pool. This could prove to be very interesting for the players!

Day 1c will play out a total of 10 levels of 1-hour before going on break until Day 2. There will be a 45-minute dinner break after level 6, at the end of which the late registration period will close. All of the surviving players will be back tomorrow, Sunday May 25th, at 11am for Day 2.

Good luck to the players participating in Day 1c!